NFS Contract Job Trends in London

Network File System (NFS)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring NFS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 351 365
Rank change year-on-year -38 +14 +130
Contract jobs citing NFS 16 8 26
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.098% 0.061% 0.14%
As % of the System Software category 0.93% 0.56% 1.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 15
10th Percentile £465 £517 £281
25th Percentile £500 £543 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £385
Median % change year-on-year -10.29% +52.01% -34.19%
75th Percentile £594 £628 £594
90th Percentile £600 £653 £598
England median daily rate £487 £525 £414
% change year-on-year -7.24% +26.89% -29.03%

All System Software Skills
London

NFS falls under the System Software category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring system software skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for system software skills 1,719 1,436 1,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 10.49% 11.01% 9.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 994 1,274
10th Percentile £311 £263 £210
25th Percentile £425 £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £625
90th Percentile £738 £813 £719
England median daily rate £500 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 14 34
10th Percentile £21.00 £21.95 £16.26
25th Percentile £21.61 £23.80 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £28.71 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -12.38% +28.15% -18.55%
75th Percentile £42.94 £80.19 £38.44
90th Percentile £67.70 £112.00 £57.08
England median hourly rate £41.94 £30.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +36.39% +36.67% -43.75%

NFS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing NFS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

NFS job vacancy trend in London

NFS
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS

NFS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing NFS in London over the 6 months to 15 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for NFS in London

NFS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing NFS

NFS
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing NFS within the London region over the 6 months to 15 March 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London -7 2 £465 -20.55% 1
NFS
England

NFS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) Apache
Cloud Services
1 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) Cohesity
2 2 (12.50%) Rubrik
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Key Vault
3 1 (6.25%) IaaS
3 1 (6.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (68.75%) NAS
2 10 (62.50%) SAN
3 2 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (6.25%) DHCP
4 1 (6.25%) Firewall
4 1 (6.25%) InfiniBand
4 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
4 1 (6.25%) Kerberos
4 1 (6.25%) LAN
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security
4 1 (6.25%) Spanning Tree
4 1 (6.25%) SSH
4 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.25%) VLAN
4 1 (6.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) MySQL
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (6.25%) Banking
1 1 (6.25%) Finance
1 1 (6.25%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Subject Matter Expert
2 3 (18.75%) Storage Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) NetApp Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Lead
4 1 (6.25%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Storage Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) LAMP
1 1 (6.25%) LAPP Stack
1 1 (6.25%) LDAP
1 1 (6.25%) libvirt
Miscellaneous
1 8 (50.00%) Replication
2 4 (25.00%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (12.50%) Clustering
3 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (12.50%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Linux
2 2 (12.50%) Data ONTAP
2 2 (12.50%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) Migration
2 8 (50.00%) Data Migration
3 6 (37.50%) Runbook
4 5 (31.25%) Operational Stability
4 5 (31.25%) Validation
5 4 (25.00%) Decision-Making
5 4 (25.00%) Performance Tuning
6 3 (18.75%) Knowledge Transfer
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (12.50%) Storage Management
7 2 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
8 1 (6.25%) Data Flow Diagram
8 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Transformation
8 1 (6.25%) Kernel Tuning
8 1 (6.25%) Performance Optimisation
8 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Bash
1 2 (12.50%) Python
2 1 (6.25%) Korn
2 1 (6.25%) Perl
2 1 (6.25%) Ruby
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (56.25%) Security Cleared
2 7 (43.75%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) COBIT
System Software
1 12 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (12.50%) Postfix
2 2 (12.50%) Varnish
3 1 (6.25%) Ceph
3 1 (6.25%) Firmware
3 1 (6.25%) iptables
3 1 (6.25%) KVM
3 1 (6.25%) Lustre
3 1 (6.25%) Samba
3 1 (6.25%) Sendmail
3 1 (6.25%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (50.00%) EMC VPLEX
1 8 (50.00%) vMotion
2 3 (18.75%) HAProxy
3 2 (12.50%) Ansible
3 2 (12.50%) SnapMirror
4 1 (6.25%) SELinux
4 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) VMware
2 10 (62.50%) Pure Storage
3 8 (50.00%) Commvault
4 2 (12.50%) NetApp